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Poetic License: In Defense of Taking Scripture Out of Context
31 July 2007 @ 09:36 | Guest Post, Poetry | 16 Comments
This is the first in a series of guest posts by Deborah– a middle & high school English teacher, an amateur poet, and a blogger at Exponent II.
I WENT out to the hazel wood
Because a fire was in my head
I do not know the rest of the poem by heart. [...]
p.o.e.t.r.y.
20 April 2007 @ 21:38 | National Poetry Month, Poetry | No Comments
Between driving back and forth to the hospital (my hubby had an emergency appendectomy on Wednesday) and studying for finals, my illustrious agenda for National Poetry Month has been neglected. Don’t worry, we are going to hold another poetry contest next week (Rock. on. Rick. Walton). But, in the meantime, I thought I’d [...]
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8 March 2007 @ 13:31 | Poetry | 4 Comments
Editor’s Note: Heather Bergevin is Segullah’s Poetry Editor, resident comic, and long-distance hug giver. This poem was written for her mother’s 51st birthday. Lucky Mom, lucky us.
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peering at her cradled blue
berry eyes in round muffin face
and suckling mouth—
I have read that she
does not realize yet her
separation, having been so long
part of our twin [...]
Blood and Milk
I dreamed of Oxford . . .
(spires, a thousand spires, endless lectures, musty halls
a solitary self in a Bodleian expanse
A good life my dear Wormwood. An orderly life.)
then awakened to laundry
and things to be wiped
(countertops, noses, bottoms)
How did this happen? And when, exactly?
